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- I am a Reform Jew and I have never
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celebrated Christmas. Ever.
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- Christmas was not something I ever learned
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how to celebrate as a young child.
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- Jesus was born December the 25th.
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And then time started. (laughs)
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(Christmas music)
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- All the little kids in the family
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wake up really, really early.
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- Everyone's wearing matching pajamas,
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all of the children, and these are adult children,
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line up in order of size.
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And then the parents watch as the children
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run down the stairs and then everyone goes "Christmas!"
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- I mean, it's just kind of scary, like
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all of a sudden there's all these like
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bells and chestnuts.
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- There's just bells everywhere.
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(bells jingling)
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And then they open all the presents.
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It's way too many presents.
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- at some point during the year
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you have to give your kid a 200-dollar electronic.
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Christmas has been set up to be that thing.
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- And they have the stocking.
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- But if you get coal in your stocking
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then you're not a bad person
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but your parents are sociopaths.
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- And then the tree dies. And, uh, Christ was born.
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(Christmas bells)
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- Uh, I don't know why you do that-
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I guess to distract yourself cause you're like,
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if you go home you're just gonna be like
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"there's presents, arghh, like I guess we'll
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"go to church to distract ourselves."
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- Six-year-old girl playing the Virgin Mary.
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- And they like dress up as donkeys and angels.
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- The children love to dress up like peppermint sticks,
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and like little Christmas trees.
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- I think that people listen to "hymes".
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- People like wear jeans to church, I've heard.
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- And maybe also just like
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a lot of Mariah Carey Christmas covers
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- Christmas dinner's ham, right?
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- A ham.
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- [Overlapping Voiceovers] Like ham. Ham.
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- Ham, again. I think there's a lot of ham happening
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- They eat the opposite
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of like what Jews'll eat.
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So they eat like a ham, you've got pineapples slices.
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- Maybe get a brisket.
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- Then there's like a toothpick in each pineapple slice
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with a cherry on top.
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- [Voiceover] Yam.
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- [Voiceover] Then there's gingerbread cookies.
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- You wear like, Christmas hats, right?
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You wear like a Santa hat? At Christmas dinner?
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- Can you eat mistletoe?
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- In a feat of acrobatics, a fat man
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with a beard and a giant like satchel of
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presents comes down a tiny little hole.
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- Somehow, in the course of one night,
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delivers presents to the whoooole world.
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- He doesn't come to my house.
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Which is weird, like how does he know?
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Like does he see the Mezuzah on the door
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and he's like "ahhh."
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- Santa travels in a little, like, the wagon,
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with the um...
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- Here are the seven reindeer:
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Rudolph.
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- On Jupiter. On...
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- Snowball.
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- Neptune. They're not, they're not the Sailor Scouts,
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I don't know their names.
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- One of them's a (beep). Right? Real mean to Rudolph?
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- [Voiceover] Ew.
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- Is there a "Prancer?"
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- You're like asking me to name the
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back-up dancers on BeyoncĂŠ's tour.
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Can't do it.
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(Christmas music)
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